by Eduardo Mendoza · edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429747300
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«La ciutat dels prodigis» is the picaresque novel by Eduardo Mendoza, published by edicions 62 in paperback (429 pages, in Catalan).
Between Barcelona's two world fairs (1888 and 1929), Onofre Bouvila goes from handing out anarchist propaganda and selling hair tonic to climbing to the city's financial and criminal summit. Mendoza renews the picaresque tradition with a playful satire of local legends and grandeurs, in a narrative that moves from realism to free fabulation.
The work was originally published in Spanish in 1986 and won the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona; this Catalan edition appeared in 2000.
For readers of historical fiction and Spanish narrative, with an interest in Barcelona at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish novelist, playwright, and essayist. His first novel, La Verdad sobre el Caso Savolta, published in 1975, reflected the social changes as Spain transitioned to democracy, and was very successful. His 1986 novel, La Ciudad de los Prodigios, is widely acclaimed, and he is also known for his "mad detective" parody novels, in particular El Laberinto de las Aceitunas.
